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Youree did not get off scot-free: his sentence was commuted to a $1,000 fine. Hero Youree, who worked his way through college and has a wife and baby daughter, will have ten months...
Protocol in No Man's Land. The most minuscule points of military protocol were scrupulously observed. Major Jack Monteith, a wiry, six-foot Scot, supervised the later detailed negotiations in no man's land when unforeseen points arose...
However Tired. The Red Devils' commander was a character for an epic: tall, thickset, a cheery Scot, at 42 one of the British Army's youngest generals. General "Roy" Urquhart had been in hard spots before, as two awards of the Distinguished Service Order showed. His citation in Sicily had read: "Coolness under fire . . . clear brain however tired...
...year-old U.S. engineering student discovered his dream man. The student was Lewis Mumford. His dream man was Sir Patrick Geddes, a thin, agile Scot with a beard like the gorse on his native moors...
...Scientific Vision. The man who made possible this incalculable alleviation of human suffering is Dr. Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the antibacterial effect of the mold from which penicillin is made. He is a short (5 ft. 7 in.), gentle, retiring Scot with somewhat dreamy blue eyes, fierce white hair and a mulling mind, which, when it moves, moves with the thrust of a cobra. Until time's solvent has dissolved the human slag, it will be hard to say who the great men of the 20th Century are. But Dr. Alexander Fleming is almost certainly one of them...